Announcements

Players and Parents,

It is that time again! The sign-up meeting for the 2012 lacrosse season is scheduled for Thursday, February 2nd at 7:00 PM in the Hartland High School Commons. All players and parents of girls interested in playing lacrosse this season must attend.

We will be distributing and collecting paperwork for the 2012 season. All the required forms may be downloaded from the hartlandlacrosse.com website under the "Forms" tab. For your convenience, you may pay the Pay-to-Play fee online by accessing the Hartland High School website. Spirit wear may be purchased online at ourteamspiritwear.com.

We are very excited about the up coming season! Please plan on attending and invite other girls to attend who may be interested.

Go Eagles!

Hartland High School Women's Lacrosse Board

Conditioning

If you haven't yet, it's time to get in gear! From the day tryouts start to our first scrimmage, we have less than 2 weeks. We need to be in shape BEFORE tryouts begin. Many of the girls have been taking advantage of our great resource in Chez, our strength and conditioning coach and we'd like to see even more girls start to get going. As always, it is non-mandatory, but the girls need to be working out somewhere and Chez does a great job of focusing on sport specific exercises.

• Every Monday and Thursday from 3:15-4:30 (meet on the indoor track)

Playing Opportunities

• University of Michigan Skills Clinic (Sunday, February 5)
• Grand Valley Winter Wonder 5 v 5 Tournament (Sunday, February 26)
• Oakland 5 v 5 Tournament at Pontiac Silverdome (Sunday, March 11)

Contact Coach Katie for details.

In an email to staff, players and parents, dated January 2, 2012, varsity head coach Katie Gutteridge wrote the following:

We went through an interview process to help find a new JV coach that would be a great fit in our program, and I'm excited to announce that Tim Bausack has been officially hired by Jason Reck (athletic director) as the new girls lacrosse JV coach. Tim comes on to the Hartland team after coaching the club Varsity program at Carmen Ainsworth for several years and serving as the coach for the Flint Tropics, an area summer/fall travel team. Tim is US Lacrosse Level 1 certified and has a true passion for the game, coaching, and to keep learning more about the sport. Many of the girls had the opportunity to meet Tim over the summer as he helped to coach one of the tournaments that I was unable to be at. I am confident that Tim will be a great fit for the girls and the program and look forward to working with him.

Welcome to our family, Coach Bausack!

Coach Gutteridge also had this to say about former JV coach, Aaron Skomial:

I can't say thank you enough for all the time and energy Aaron has put into the program over the years and continues to put in now. He was an integral piece in building the program to where it is now, developed great relationships with the girls and families, and we're so lucky to have him use his time and expertise to continue helping girls develop in the off season.

You're awesome "Coach" Sko! Enjoy retirement!

A fundraising event for Challenge Day at Ore Creek Middle School!

• Guys vs. Girls High School Lacrosse Game
• When: October 27, 2011, 7pm-8:30pm
• Where: Old Hartland High School Football Field
• Admission: $3 Suggested donation (more is always welcome)

If making a donation by check, please make it out Ore Creek Middle School (Challenge Day in the memo section).
Be ready to watch some of Hartland’s best High School lacrosse player’s play against each other and have some fun! The players will switch sticks (they are different) and play for a great cause!
Come support a wonderful program at the middle school and our players!

A huge congratulations goes out to four Hartland girls who earned All State Honors this year from the Michigan Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association. All of these girls worked incredibly hard and their dedication and talent were recognized by coaches all around the state.

• All-State First Team: Ryan Skomial
• All-State Honorable Mention: Rachel Sharpe, Natalie Sochaki and Kelsey LaValley

Many coaches at the meeting commented on how impressed they were with the team as a whole and how much they improved this year. We know that our great season was the result of every girl on the team working hard and giving their best effort. Congrats to all the girls on the great season and looking forward to going all the way next year!

Coach Katie

Also, earlier this week at the team banquet, the following awards were handed out:

• Academic All-American: Taylor Pryde
• Academic All-State: Taylor Pryde, Maggie Hogan, Hayley Crouse and Kelsey LaValley
• All-League First Team : Ryan Skomial, Natalie Sochaki, Rachel Sharpe
• All-League Honorable Mention: Coming soon.
• Defensive MVP: Kelsey LaValley
• Offensive MVP: Ryan Skomial
• Coach’s Award: Rachel Sharpe
• Eagle Spirit: Maggie Hogan

Congratulations, ladies! Great season! Go Eagles!

Congratulations to the following individuals who were winners in our recent raffle drawing to raise money for the Hartland Women's Lacrosse Program:

• Mark Hutchinson from Amanda Wright's bracket won an iPad!
• Marty Hansen from Maggie Hogan's bracket won a iPod Touch!
• Brad Gotts from Taylor Pryde's bracket won a iPod Nano!

Thanks for playing!

This Saturday the varsity plays in the morning (beginning at 9:30am) and JV plays in the afternoon (beginning at 1:50pm). We will be organizing two separate driving times. A schedule of the Saturday scrimmage times at East Grand Rapids is attached. Check your e-mail for details. Google Map

So you’ve worked really hard on learning or refining your skills over the past season, but don’t want them to get dusty over the summer months? Keep them fresh by joining the practice program held in Hartland! No more long distance traveling, low participation rates or sub-par facilities with less than skilled instructors!

Varsity Coach Christine Hite is holding a lacrosse clinic for 6 weeks over the summer. It is important to continue to build on your lacrosse talent during the off season. Please take advantage of this program! It is a fun and exciting way to keep your skills active.

Practice Program will be held at Ore Creek and will start on June 15th with sequential dates of June 22, 29 and July 13, 20, 27th. Possible rain-out makeup date: July 27th. This year's program cost is $65 per person and it includes a year’s membership to US Lacrosse!

Download the attached document for more information.

The 2010 season stats have been tabulated. Please download the appropriate document below to view and print your copy. A few of the highlights are Nikki Cerovec's 74 goals and 21 assists, Anna Lundwalls' 124 ground balls, and Annie Quinn's 41 caused turn-overs. Congrats!

Several Hartland players on the 2010 varsity team were awarded honors at the season-ending banquet. Congratulations to the following players — and the entire varsity and JV teams for a great season!

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Nikki Cerovec, Kelsey LaValley and Annie Quinn

KLAA ALL-CONFERENCE 2010
Out of four teams including Brighton, White Lake, Grand Blanc and Hartland.
Katie Chiappelli, Anna Lundwall and Kelsey LaValley.

KLAA ALL-LEAGUE 2010
Out of eight teams including Brighton, White Lake, Grand Blanc, Hartland, PCS, South Lyon, Northville and Waterford Mott.
FIRST TEAM: Nikki Cerovec (attack), Anna Lundwall (defense) and Ashley Stoltenberg (midfield)
SECOND TEAM: Ryan Skomial (attack) and Annie Quinn (defense)
HONORABLE MENTION: Taylor Pryde (midfield), Hailey Crouse (midfield), Rachel Sharpe (attack) and Kelsey LaValley (goalie)

MWLCA ALL-STATE
HONORABLE MENTION: Anna Lundwall, Ashley Stoltenberg and Nikki Cerovec

COACH AWARDS
Scholastic Award: Ryan Skomial (4.0 GPA)
Defensive Player 2010: Anna Lundwall
Offensive Player 2010: Nikki Cerovec
Coach’s Award 2010: Taylor Pryde

2011 TEAM CAPTAINS
Coach Christine announced that Erin Harris, Kelsey LaValley, Courtney Lee and Ryan Skomial will be next year's varsity captains. Congrats!

Before the season comes to an end here in just over a month from now, I want to get everyone to start thinking about what they could be doing over the summer to continue their lacrosse skill development. In order to make sure that we have a summer practice program that is adequately geared to the suit the desires of the players and parents supporting the Hartland High School Girls lacrosse program, I want to make sure that there is an avenue available in order to make sure that your feedback and ideas are heard by the coaching staff that will be creating the practice program this year.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey by clicking the link below. Any type of feedback would be great! At best, it will take you 5 minutes.

http://survey.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_5zq4UkKOFl9HwTa&SVID=

Thanks!

Coach Christine

Attention Varsity Parents & Players:

Please note that the Varsity team has entered a Playday this coming Saturday at OKEMOS. Just as with the Tecumseh event, we will be playing 3 games with 20 minute running halves. First game at 9:00am.

Stay tuned for more details... we are working out details with the school and will get all information to you as soon as possible.

Jim Banish
Hartland Women's Lacrosse Director

Finally! After extensive "usability testing" by the people that use the site the most (the players) I have finally developed a photo gallery layout that should meet the needs of our wide range of site visitors.

With the new photo gallery layout, you can now quickly scan and page through the thumbnails — like you do in Facebook. You can also click the "Play Slideshow" link and sit back and relax. I have also included a link to the original, hi-res file that is suitable for 4" x 6" prints. Download and print whatever you want!

Note to players: if you want to post these to your Facebook page, you will want to use the original file and let Facebook resize the photo down to their max width (or height) of 720 pixels. The medium-sized photos in the preview window are only 600 pixels max.

I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I enjoy taking them. Go Eagles!

The popular lacrosse web site ranks teams by division and overall. Hartland moved up to a number 6 ranking for Division I schools and 9th overall in the state of Michigan. Click here to see all the rankings

UPDATE: As of Monday, April 19, the site adjusted Hartland's ranking to 11th in the state and 8th in Division I. Not sure how they can rank accurately when some of the teams above us have only posted one game. Hmmm....